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Joey O’Hanrahan’s County Council campaign in Thomastown was launched by Ireland East candidate for the European Parliament election, Senator John Paul Phelan

Local Senator and Fine Gael’s spokesperson for Social and Family Affairs, Nicky McFadden, has condemned the Budget as targeting the most vulnerable in Irish society.

A controversial "party pill" that was the reason behind a series of raids nationwide last week, is still being sold in Head shops across the city, despite protest from Government officials and members of the public.

Ireland’s Grand Slam victory is a tremendous boost for Ireland and a timely victory as we desperately need something to cheer about, Fine Gael Senator and European Election candidate in Ireland East, John Paul Phelan, has said. He hopes it is a win which will lift all boats.

The west of Ireland is still being neglected for major infrastructural development and the region’s MEPs are out of touch with the people on European issues, so new voices and new thinking is needed.

At the age of 25 Mary Harney became the youngest senator in the Seanad at the invitation of the then taoiseach Jack Lynch.

OWEN ASHWORTH, the man behind the lo-fi electro-indie project Casiotone For The Painfully Alone admits he feels a certain amount of anxiety about the possibility of starting a family.

Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has presented a major report on the redevelopment of the west of Ireland to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. The report, entitled “Awakening the West: Overcoming Social and Economic Inequality”, is the first report of its kind in decades and has been put together after a major consultation process involving dozens of groups along the western seaboard.

With over 6,150 people signing on the dole in Kilkenny this month EU candidate for Ireland East Senator John PAul Phelan said that clearly job protection and creation is as important as sorting out our public finances.

Early school leavers who left without completing their Leaving Certificate are being urged to take part in research into how and why the Irish education system has failed them.